蜕皮激素对双斑蟋后足胫节再生的影响

通过对双斑蟋(Gryllus bimaculatus)若虫施加不同剂量蜕皮激素(MH)并进行观察、记录、分析,探讨了蜕皮激素对其后足胫节再生的影响.实验结果表明,适量的蜕皮激素可以使双斑蟋若虫再生期间的蜕皮间隔缩短,胫节再生的长度加大.过量的蜕皮激素则抑制若虫胫节的再生甚至造成若虫死亡.     

The role of sex steroids in the acquisition and production of birdsong

Male birdsong is generally regarded as a secondary sexual characteristic under the control of gonadal steroids. Song typically waxes and wanes with the seasonal cycle of testicular growth and regression and decreases after adult castration. Testosterone therapy reinstates song, induces it in females, augments it in intact males, and spring testosterone profiles correlate with seasonal song production. Thus, testosterone has been viewed as a major factor in song acquisition and production acting either directly, or after aromatization within the brain. We show here, however, that song learning and early phases of the development of singing both take place in castrated male birds with no significant levels of testosterone in their blood plasma. Testosterone seems to be required for song crystallization, however. Oestradiol was unexpectedly still present after castration, evidently from a non-testicular source, throughout the period of male song acquisition.     

新型可见光激发解水材料的研究进展

直接利用太阳光激发光催化剂分解水得到氢气和氧气,是极具诱惑力的一个研究方向,而目前面临的难点之一是已发现的光催化剂难以在可见光激发下具有持续、稳定的性能和较高的分解水的效率,因此找到新的可见光激发光催化剂是非常必要的.本文介绍了该领域的最新研究成果,并对可见光光激发催化剂分解水的机理进行了阐述.     

唱响白族歌谣我们踏歌而来——"中日白族歌谣文化学术研讨会"会议综述

歌谣是一个民族最古老的记忆，是反映一个民旋社会历史演变的活化石，要探寻一个民族的历史足迹和社会生活，歌谣是最好的标本。白族民间文学源远流长，但白族歌谣研究却一直是一个被遗忘的角落，到现在为止，收集整理多，理论研究少；社会学研究多，立体研究少。有鉴于此，大理学院与日本亚洲民族文化学会于2006年8月20日至24日在云南省大理州共同举办“中日白族歌谣文化学术研讨会”，抛砖引玉，以期引起国内外学界同仁的研究目光，共同关注以歌谣为代表的白族文化。     

γ射线智能密度计电路设计

阐述了γ射线智能密度计的测量原理.设计了以C8051F005为核心的信号处理单元,并配有RS485通信接口4、~20 mA电流环输出、FM12864液晶显示器以及测量密度的显示.     

Modeling the MHC class I pathway by combining predictions of proteasomal cleavage,TAP transport and MHC class I binding

Epitopes presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules are selected by a multi-step process. Here we present the first computational prediction of this process based on in vitro experiments characterizing proteasomal cleavage, transport by the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) and MHC class I binding. Our novel prediction method for proteasomal cleavages outperforms existing methods when tested on in vitro cleavage data. The analysis of our predictions for a new dataset consisting of 390 endogenously processed MHC class I ligands from cells with known proteasome composition shows that the immunological advantage of switching from constitutive to immunoproteasomes is mainly to suppress the creation of peptides in the cytosol that TAP cannot transport. Furthermore, we show that proteasomes are unlikely to generate MHC class I ligands with a C-terminal lysine residue, suggesting processing of these ligands by a different protease that may be tripeptidyl-peptidase II (TPPII).Received 26 November 2004; received after revision 4 February 2005; accepted 4 March 2005S. Tenzer and B. Peters contributed equally to this work.